Chapter 3 Ups and Downs (Part 8) "Zhongjian, sir, you are also thinking about these people!" Yu Wenshiji explained for Yuan Wuben while shaking his head at Li Xu.
"Humph!" Li Xu snorted coldly, turned around to inspect and comfort his wounds, feeling worse than eating a hundred flies. He admired Yuan Wuben's calmness and courage after his defeat, but
This man's attitude of treating the common people like rotten dogs is really annoying. In Xu Zi's eyes, although those prisoners lacked courage and were very weak in fighting ability, they were all honest and amiable innocent people like his uncle Zhang Baosheng. If it weren't for Yang Xuangan
, Yuan Wuben and others are too ambitious. At this moment, these captives are still farming and playing at home, who would come to do business with their heads!
Now that the battle has been defeated, Yuan Wuben still poses as a lofty saint, as if he can take on all responsibilities and use courage and wisdom to find a way out for the "people" under his rule. However, he does not want to think about what would have happened if they had not
With false fame and greed, they dare to start a hasty attack without even armor or weapons. How could those people end up in such a situation!
The other generals of the Xiongwu camp did not have a good impression of Yuan Wuben. When they saw Li Xu coming to review the results of the battle, they immediately raised their voices deliberately and said, "Report to the general, our army has 212 killed, 47 seriously injured, and 600 slightly injured, but they can still fight."
Those, four thousand three hundred and fifty-eight! We killed more than three thousand enemies and captured twenty thousand three hundred and sixty-three enemy soldiers, including sixty colonels and governors, eleven generals and one general." Chief Shi Zhao Ziming
He held the inventory and read it aloud. The rough statistics were originally not so accurate, but in order to humiliate Yuan Wuben, he deliberately read the numbers to single digits.
"The pseudo-prefect Yuan Wuben has surrendered and is waiting for the general's resignation!" Zhao Ziming handed over the inventory, "taken a look" at Yuan Wuben with the corner of his eye, clasped his fists, stood in awe, then turned and stood aside
"General, twenty flags, one hundred and fifty pairs of armor, more than five hundred horizontal knives, six thousand kitchen knives, six thousand iron forks, and more than fourteen thousand wooden sticks were captured in this battle!" Sicang joined the army Qin Xingshi!
The stick reading was deliberately lengthened so that everyone present could hear it clearly.
The generals of the Xiongwu Camp laughed loudly, but Yuan Wuben seemed not to hear the laughter of others and continued to discuss military affairs with Yu Wenshiji calmly. For a moment, Li Xu finished handling the military chores, and Yu Wenshiji also finished asking Yuan Wu
After a brief consultation with several key figures in the army, Chang Shi Zhao Ziming and a thousand troops were left to take care of our wounded soldiers and escort the prisoners slowly towards Liyang. More than 3,000 soldiers followed Li Xu and Yuwen.
Shiji, led by Yuan Wuben, went straight to Liyang
The rebels who stayed behind in Liyang City had long heard the news from the defeated soldiers that their entire army had been annihilated. They were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. When they saw the governor Yuan Wu Ben leading the enemy troops to capture the city, they could not even mention it.
Ren Zheng resisted and obediently followed Yuan Wuben's order to open the city and surrender.
Li Xu, Yu Wenshi and Daxi immediately sent people to take over the city defense, settle the soldiers, seal up the treasury, and organize public security. They were busy from dusk to midnight, and then they remembered that they had won such a big battle and had not sent people to report the victory to the commander.
The people hurriedly discussed the rhetoric and unanimously agreed. They wrote down the field battle during the day and the capture of the city in the evening. They were divided into two parts. One part was ordered to report to the old general Yu Wenshu on Pegasus. The other part was sealed with fire paint and marked with eight hundred miles.
Hurry up and report back to His Majesty the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty
When the messenger was ordered to leave, the two men remembered that Li Anyuan was still feinting towards Ji County with hundreds of soldiers and horses, so they quickly sent out their own soldiers, intercepted Li Anyuan along the official road, and ordered him to quickly move closer to Li Yang. Then, they sent Zhang Xiu to lead Li Anyuan.
Someone went to pick up Zhao Ziming and ordered him to bring all the surrendered soldiers back to Liyang and place them in the military camp in the city for supervision. After all the miscellaneous things were done, it was already dark before they knew it. The situation between the enemy and ourselves was unclear, so the two of them did not dare to rest, so they grabbed something to eat.
, he took his soldiers out to inspect the city defense.
Liyang City is located next to the Yongji Canal. It was an important place for the storage and transportation of grain and grass in the Sui Dynasty. Therefore, the city walls were built very high. There were all kinds of defense buildings including urns, horse faces, watchtowers, and arrow towers. The city walls were equipped with a large number of rolling logs and stones.
Nail racquets, long hooks and other weapons for defending the city. There are still more than a dozen crossbows stored in the two tall gatehouses in the east and north. However, they are already very old and I don't know if they are suitable for use.
The city has a small population, so there are very few residential buildings. Within the square city, every thirty steps or so, there is a brick and stone granary. Each granary is five feet in diameter and two feet high. There are dozens of granaries in total.
, the food and grass inside is tens of millions of stones. As Yuan Wuben said yesterday, even if a hundred thousand troops feed for five years, they may not be able to use up all the food.
"So much food!" Yu Wenshiji shook his head as he looked at it. He originally decided to attack Liyang with light troops, and the idea was to take advantage of the rebels' unpreparedness and burn down the granary. But now that he saw so much food, he also looked at it.
When he arrived at such a tall city, he was hesitant to decide.
"Yes, so much food!" Li Xu said with a sigh. What he was thinking about at this moment was not how tall Liyang City was, but the unharvested wheat in Shanggu County and the burned farmland around Liyang. Three hundred thousand people rushed back to help.
The army abandoned all the supplies on the road. If Liyang's food was left behind, the army would not have to go around to collect it in the coming year, and the lives of the surrounding people would be somewhat easier.
The two looked at each other, and they both saw a sense of reluctance in each other's eyes. Although they had different starting points, they rarely thought of one thing.
"This city is very well built. If Yuan Wuben hadn't led us into the city yesterday, it would have been difficult for our more than four thousand brothers to enter the city gate for a while!" Yu Wenshiji nodded at Li Xu and smiled.
said
"That's natural. We came here in a hurry and there is no one who can match our skills! Even if we build ladders, we won't be able to build enough in just three or five days!" Li Xu nodded in response, his eyes full of smiles.
"We don't have any siege equipment, and Yang Xuangan may not have it. Even if Han Shihe comes here in person, I don't believe he can climb to the top of the city with his bare hands!" Yu Wenshi pointed to the mountains and rivers in the distance and said loudly.
"Old General Yuwen will definitely come to our rescue after receiving the news of our victory. If Han Shihe dares to stay under the city for a long time, you and I will make him come and go." Li Xu slowly raised his head, feeling extremely proud in his heart.
The two looked at each other and laughed, deciding to stick to the end. Whether it was Li Mi or Han Shihe, their reputations were spread by others. The Yuwen family's Sanlang and the Li family's boy were not as famous as them and had more experience. But in a real fight, there was no telling who would win.
Now that they have decided to defend the city, the two people immediately began to discuss the deployment of troops. At present, there are only more than 4,000 soldiers in the Xiongwu camp who can participate in the battle. It is obviously a stupid idea to arrange them all on the city wall. In addition to their own robes, the two of them also
What can be used are the prisoners in the city. Currently, those people are being held in the military camp waiting to be dealt with. After withstanding yesterday's blow, everyone is as submissive as a sheep. Zhao Ziming escorted more than 20,000 prisoners with a thousand soldiers and horses, but there was no one in the process.
people trying to escape
"The general has the courage to replace the officers above the group leader with our people! With these officers guarding them, they can't rebel even if they want to!" Yu Wenshu took a stone and drew a series of numbers on the ground.
"Twenty thousand people need 2,000 team leaders plus team captains, brigade leaders, and school lieutenants. But more than half of our brothers in the Xiongwu Camp will have to live in officialdom for the time being!"
"Leave three regiments of cavalry on standby. If the enemy attacks too unscrupulously, I can take some people out to kill them!" Li Xu grabbed a branch and squatted next to Yu Wenshi and others.
"The Third Young Master is becoming more and more like a soldier!" Several generals of the Yuwen clan frowned and cursed in their hearts, "They were all led by this wild boy. I don't know what good this wild boy has. He actually let the Third Young Master and
He’s so relatable!”
The slander was the slander, but the generals dispersed dutifully and looked around to prevent other people from approaching and disturbing the two adults' discussion of military affairs. Yu Wenshiji and Li Xu squatted under a huge granary, using the ground as a case and picking rocks as objects.
Pen, slowly outline the city defense deployment
"Tell the prisoners that if they can make a contribution in defending the city, they will be rewarded just like the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty!" Li Xu reviewed the results of the discussion between the two and added in a low voice.
"Well, since the chief culprit is Yuan Wu, since he has been executed, Xie Cong will not ask any questions. After asking about the enemy's situation tonight, I will treat Mr. Yuan to a drink, and we will send him on his way!" Yu Wenshiji threw down the used stones and patted him.
Clap your hands, stand up, look particularly relaxed on your face
"Isn't the strategy of using soldiers to defend the city dedicated to you by Yuan Wuben?" Li Xu gently put down the branch in his hand, and asked with unconcealed surprise. He originally thought that Yuan Wuben offered the city again, and then
I thought that because his attitude was so respectful, at least Yuwen Shiji would consider asking for a favor in front of the emperor to save him from death, but he didn't expect that Yuwen Shiji didn't care about Yuan Wuben's life at all.
"Of course it is. Don't forget that he has rebelled and surrendered to the enemy, but he also pretends to be a good official for the people. He said that the soldiers who were thieves were all captured by him. He has no right or wrong in his heart. He suggested that I reorganize them and join the Xiongwu Camp.
Brothers, let's stick to Liyang together!" Yu Wenshiji sighed and replied that in his eyes, Yuanwu Benn handed over Liyang City after the defeat, which can be regarded as an upright celebrity. But the greater his reputation among the rebels, the harder it is to hide his whereabouts.
"But, he has already made atonement for his sins with his merits?" Li Xu's eyes unknowingly glared at the boss again. He didn't like Yuan Wuben. In his opinion, this person's behavior was revealed from head to toe.
It’s weird. He gave everyone in the family, young and old, as slaves, and his own head was about to be cut off, but he seemed to be happy with it. But Yuwen Shiji’s behavior of praising others while thinking about how to cut their heads was too unexpected.
"We in the Sui Dynasty will not hold the dead accountable for their crimes!" Yu Wenshiji patted Li Xu on the shoulder and explained to him as if he were comforting his little brother, "If I kill him now, the emperor will not destroy his clan in the future.
Since his family has become the slaves of my Yuwen family, the Ministry of Punishment will naturally not dig into the details. If we treat him as a prisoner and present him to the emperor, I am afraid that not only he himself will be punished by Ling Chi in the future, but also his wife, children, children, brothers, nephews, etc.
, they can’t escape death! If there is a cruel official trying the case, even Mr. Yuan’s side branches and cousins will be sent to the fortress to guard the border. They will never come back!"
"Ah!" Li Xu's mouth opened so wide that he could have stuffed a whole egg into it. He didn't understand the Sui Dynasty's laws on rebellion at all, so he always fantasized about meeting his mentor Yang Fuzi on the battlefield, and then
He secretly hid his mentor and let him go when the news subsided. But now he realizes how childish this idea is, so childish it is almost laughable.
"There are rules in various places in the Central Plains. Non-nephews of local prominent families are not allowed to serve as officials. Although Yuan Wuben is only a county captain, the Yuan family is also considered a large family in the local area. The whole family, old and young, adds up to at least hundreds of people. We killed him, but in fact we saved him.
His whole family!" Yuwenshi's words were like thunder, exploding over Li Xu's head.
